Till date, except for its genre being a "stranding" whatever that means, no one knows what this game is all about.

what this game is about?

a post apocalypse DHL delivery man trying to delivery parcels from point A to point B on foot with minimal losses

Let's put it this way, explaining what this game is about completely wrecks the experience. I will say this, knowing what the game is about beforehand will not make you want to play it, at all.

well, if you put Hideo Kojima's name on any games, majority will wanna play it blindly no matter what kind of games is it

Perhaps after this game, not many will buy his games blindly anymore? Who knows?

There are 2 somewhat significant spoilers in the launch trailer (though without context, you won't even know what it means). Don't watch it if you want to go in completely blind.

Ben,embargo will be lifted soon. Did u have a chance to review it?

embargo lifted at 4pm today?

I got a review copy yes.

Manyak diam diam....... but already played. Hahaha. Will not put u in a difficult position to comment on the game, after all, Nov 1 is here right?

Review is out!

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This post has been edited by Oblivionz: Nov 1 2019, 03:12 PM

Review are popping up on YouTube. Seem ok from it... But definitely like what I suspect a very slow burner.

If no time to play best just watch whole thing on YouTube or twitch.

From what i seen the review its either 8-10 masterpiece or worst/boring game ever

The core gameplay is literally a fetch quest and hiking simulator, its not 3rd person shooter

No matter still gonna buy and experience it myself

Sony damn strict about the embargo this time. Kojima also damn strict about it.

Theoretically I can talk about the game now since it's already past 12:01AM PT. AMA.


While its primary focus is indeed a fetch quest game, you don't always have to play the way the game tells you to - "connecting America". There is some freedom but unfortunately, combat is not one of the game's strong points eventhough it's almost a carbon copy of MGSV's combat. You can't always just shoot your way out if things go wrong and you're grabbed by shadows.

I didn't find the game boring though, but rather it's quite odd and there are many things that don't make sense. It's up to you to interpret the story the way it is told.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 1 2019, 05:31 PM

If Kojima is not at the helm, and starring popular actors/actress, would the reviewers still gives very positive reviews?

Some already complained RDR2's long prologue is too long & boring, and here we got 10 hours before things starts to get interesting? I ain't got time for that

Anyway, won't be getting it at launch, waiting for sales

I'll put it this way - Death Stranding is a game that Kojima was going for with PT. There's a lot of Silent Hill esque theme to everything, it tries to trick and blur the lines between what is real and what isn't.

I also feel the game would be somewhat different and perhaps, better come launch day. You see - the review copies that we got, we're mostly alone. The server isn't populated enough to make it seem like the world is growing and connecting. Because of this, often times I had to go out of a very radical way to reach a place that would perhaps have been easier and more manageable to get to if other players has already built their ladders or left their ropes there.

Taking detours in the game isn't very fun because a lot of these detours especially in the first 10 hours of the game at least are quite hazardous and you as Sam simply don't have the tools. Sure you can cheese some of the terrains, but where's the fun in that? The game encourages you to "share" with other players (think Dark Souls/Bloodborne messages, but much more fleshed out here), but for me at least - there weren't that many people that I was sharing with. Most of my time with the game was a ghost town.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 1 2019, 05:26 PM

Ign 6.5.
GS 9

i will get this games once a good discount for it.